Endemic predators, invasive prey and native diversity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1706, 2011, Pages 690-694

  Wanger, Thomas C ^a,b   Wielgoss, Arno C ^b   Motzke, Iris ^b   Clough, Yann ^b   Brook, Barry W ^a   Sodhi, Navjot S ^c   Tscharntke, Teja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Ants; Biocontrol; Ecosystem services; Invasive naivety effect

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIBIAN; ANT; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOAD;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; SULAWESI; SUNDA ISLES;

AMPHIBIA; ANOPLOLEPIS GRACILIPES; ANURA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; THEOBROMA CACAO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951790217     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1512     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. FAOSTAT. 2009 FAO statistical databases. See http://faostat.fao.org/site/ 567/default.aspx#ancor.
2. Schroth, G. & Harvey, C. 2007 Biodiversity conservation in cocoa production landscapes: an overview. Biodivers. Conserv. 16, 2237-2244. (doi:10.1007/s10531-007-9195-1) (Pubitemid 47030056)
3. Clough, Y. et al. 2009 Biodiversity patterns and trophic interactions in human-dominated tropical landscapes in Sulawesi (Indonesia): plants, arthropods and vertebrates. In Tropical rainforests and agroforests under global change (eds T. Tscharntke, C. Leuschner, E. Veldkamp, H. Faust, E. Guhardja & A. Bidin), pp. 15-71. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.
4. Roemer, G. W., Donlan, C. J. & Courchamp, F. 2002 Golden eagles, feral pigs, and insular carnivores: how exotic species turn native predators into prey. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 99, 791-796. (doi:10.1073/pnas.012422499) (Pubitemid 34106589)
5. Wagner, D. L. & Van Driesche, R. G. 2010 Threats posed to rare or endangered insects by invasions of nonnative species. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 55, 547-568. (doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-112408-085516)
6. Philpott, S. M. & Armbrecht, I. 2006 Biodiversity in tropical agroforests and the ecological role of ants and ant diversity in predatory function. Ecol. Entomol. 31, 369-377. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00793.x) (Pubitemid 44098417)
7. O'Dowd, D. J., Green, P. T. & Lake, P. S. 2003 Invasional 'meltdown' on an oceanic island. Ecol. Lett. 6, 812-817. (doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003. 00512.x) (Pubitemid 37105910)
8. McNatty, A., Abbott, K. & Lester, P. 2009 Invasive ants compete with and modify the trophic ecology of hermit crabs on tropical islands. Oecologia 160, 187-194. (doi:10.1007/s00442-009-1279-z)
9. GISD. 2007 Global Invasive Species Database. See http://www.issg.org/ database/species/search.asp?st=100ss.
10. Wanger, T. C., Rauf, A. & Schwarze, S. 2010 Pesticides and tropical biodiversity. Front. Ecol. Environ. 8, 178-179. (doi:10.1890/10.WB.015)
11. Chivian, E. & Bernstein, A. 2008 Sustaining life: how human health depends on biodiversity New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
12. Wanger, T. C., Saro, A., Iskandar, D. T., Brook, B. W., Sodhi, N. S., Clough, Y. & Tscharntke, T. 2009 Conservation value of cacao agroforestry for amphibians and reptiles in South-East Asia: combining correlative models with follow-up field experiments. J. Appl. Ecol. 46, 823-832. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01663.x)
13. Wielgoss, A., Tscharntke, T., Buchori, D., Fiala, B. & Clough, Y. 2010 Temperature and a dominant dolichoderine ant species affect ant diversity in Indonesian cacao plantations. Agr. Ecosyst. Environ. 135, 253-259. (doi:10.1016/j.agee.2009.10.003)
14. McCarthy, M. 2007 Bayesian methods for ecology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
15. Clarke, R. D. 1974 Food habits of toads, genus Bufo (Amphibia, Bufonidae). Am. Midl. Nat. 91, 140-147.
16. Wells, K. D. 2001 The energetics of calling in frogs. In Anuran communication (ed. M. J. Ryan), pp. 45-60. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press.
17. Simberloff, D. 2010 Invasive species. Conservation biology for all (eds N. S. Sodhi & P. R. Ehrlich), pp. 131-152. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
18. Holway, D. A., Lach, L., Suarez, A. V., Tsutsui, N. D. & Case, T. J. 2002 The causes and consequences of ant invasions. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 33, 181-233. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolysis.33.010802.150444) (Pubitemid 36035140)
19. Kenis, M., Auger-Rozenberg, M.-A., Roques, A., Timms, L., Pere, C., Cock, M. J.W., Settele, J., Augustin, S. & Lopez Vaamonde, C. 2009 Ecological effects of invasive alien insects. Biol. Invasions 11, 21-45. (doi:10.1007/s10530-008-9318-y)
20. Zug, G. R., Vitt, L. J. & Caldwell, J. P. 2001 Herpetology: an introductory biology of amphibians and reptiles, 2nd edn. San Fransisco, CA: Academic Press.
21. Fritz, G., Rand, A. S. & Depamphilis, C. W. 1981 The aposematically colored frog, Dendrobates pumilio, is distasteful to the large, predatory ant, Paraponera clavata. Biotropica 13, 158-159.
22. Rowley, J. et al. 2009 Impending conservation crisis for southeast Asian amphibians. Biol. Lett. 6, 336-338. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0793)
23. Relyea, R. A. 2005 The impact of insecticides and herbicides on the biodiversity and productivity of aquatic communities. Ecol. Appl. 15, 618-627. (doi:10.1890/03-5342) (Pubitemid 40441302)
24. Wanger, T. C., Iskandar, D. T, Motzke, I., Brook, B. W., Sodhi, N. S., Clough, Y. & Tscharntke, T. 2010 Land-use change affects community composition of tropical amphibians and reptiles in Sulawesi (Indonesia). Conserv. Biol. 24, 795-802. (doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01434.x)
25. Bos, M. M., Tylianakis, J. M., Steffan-Dewenter, I. & Tscharntke, T. 2008 The invasive Yellow Crazy Ant and the decline of forest ant diversity in Indonesian cacao agroforests. Biol. Invasions 10, 1399-1409. (doi:10.1007/s10530-008-9215-4)
26. Dunham, A. E. & Mikheyev, A. S. 2010 Influence of an invasive ant on grazing and detrital communities and nutrient fluxes in a tropical forest. Divers. Distrib. 16, 33-42. (doi:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00620.x)
27. Feare, C. 1999 Ants take over from rats on Bird Island, Seychelles. Bird Conserv. Int. 9, 94-95.
28. Abbott, K. L. 2005 Supercolonies of the invasive yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes, on an oceanic island: forager activity patterns, density and biomass. Insectes Soc. 52, 266-273. (doi:10.1007/s00040-005-0800-6) (Pubitemid 41187590)
29. Juhrbandt, J., Duwe, T., Barkmann, J., Gerold, G. & Marggraf, R. 2010 Structure and management of cocoa agroforestry systems in Central Sulawesi across an intensification gradient. In Tropical rainforests and agroforests under global change (eds T. Tscharntke, C. Leuschner, E. Veldkamp, H. Faust, E. Guhardja & A. Bidin), pp. 115-140. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.
30. Carlsson, N. O. L., Sarnelle, O. & Strayer, D. L. 2009 Native predators and exotic prey: an acquired taste? Front. Ecol. Environ. 7, 525-532. (doi:10.1890/080093)